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Book Title: The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of Perfume and ObsessionThe author of the book:Chandler BurrEdition: Random House TradeDate of issue: February 10th 2004Loaded: 1909 timesReader ratings: 5.4ISBN: 0375759816ISBN 13: 9780375759819Language: EnglishFormat files: PDFThe size of the: 764 KBCity - Country: No data

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The Emperor of Scent tells of the scientific maverick Luca Turin, a connoisseur and something of an aesthete who wrote a bestselling perfume guide and bandied about an outrageous new theory on the human sense of smell. Drawing on cutting-edge work in biology, chemistry, and physics, Turin used his obsession with perfume and his eerie gift for smell to turn the cloistered worlds of the smell business and science upside down, leading to a solution to the last great mystery of the senses: how the nose works.

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Chandler Burr is the New York Times scent critic and author of The Perfect Scent, The Emperor of Scent, and A Separate Creation. He has written for the Atlantic and the New Yorker. He lives in New York City.

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